The Internet: A Change in Education
In 1962, J.C.R. Licklider envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. Licklider formatted the idea about the potential benefits of a country-wide communications network, a vision supported by the United States governments. The U.S. Department of Defense researchers could share information with one another and with other researchers.
"It will possibly turn out that only an rare occasions do most or all of the computers in the overall system operate together in an integrated network. It seems to me important, nevertheless, to develop a capability for integrated network operation." - J.C.R. Licklider
This would also prove useful to universities such as MIT to share and obtain information with other sources, ultimately in order to improve education. The Internet would be able to connect computers, which had been recently invented in 1950, so that multiple separate networks could be joined together into a network of networks.
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